Both students who wish to trade spaces must email livingoncampus@uconn.edu during an active room change process with the following information:

1. Name
2. Student Number
3. Name of Person you are trading with
4. Student Number of Person you are trading with
5. Hall and Room you wish to move into

Students will be contacted after their Trading Spaces request is reviewed with additional instructions and should not move/relocate until they receive written approval from Residential Life.

Room Change Processes

The Mid-Year Move Room Change Process is designed to help current Fall residents choose a new space for the Spring semester.

Any student who changes rooms mid-year needs to move out of their current room at the end of the Fall semester. They must check out of the room, return their keys and vacate all belongings over break. These students return in January with all belongings to check into their new room.

Want to change rooms but can’t take everything home with you over break? A Spring Room Change Process begins during the spring semester. If there is a specific room that you would like but can’t perform the Mid-Year Room Change; email livingoncampus@uconn.edu by November 8th with the room information and every effort will be made to hold the space for you for the Spring Room Change Process.

Room Changes Offered During this Process:

1. Online Room Change
2. Specific Room, Learning Community, Honors, Special Interest Housing
3. Trading Spaces

Process Timeline:

Please review the Important Dates to ensure you submit your application on time and know other relevant deadlines.

Specific Information about this Process:

• Deadline to apply is Friday, November 15^th.
• Deadline to request a specific room is Friday, November 8^th.
• Selection times based on earned credits will be available November 27^th.
• Online room change selection is December 2nd through December 4th.
• Any student that changes rooms in this process is committed to checking out by December 16^th at 12pm taking all their belongings with them and returning key to their Hall Staff.
• Student will move into their new room on January 19^th .

• Unlike the Fall Room Change Process, as soon as you pick another room, your previous assignment will be available for someone else to choose, which means that you cannot change your mind if you choose a new room.
• If you want to move into a room that you know will have an opening, make sure you include that on your room change application and Residential Life staff will see if the room will be available. Double-check that the person leaving the room has told Residential Life they are leaving.
• Students who are participating in Winter Recess Housing will not be eligible for the Mid-Year Room Change process.
• If you would like to move off-campus for the Spring semester, you can cancel housing via MyHousing and fill out the Cancel Your Spring Housing application. Students attending the Storrs campus but moving off-campus will be responsible for 100% of their Spring Room rate.
• Please note that first year students are required to live on-campus are not eligible to cancel their housing. Students who wish to file an exemption from the residency policy can visit the Residency Requirement Information page for more information related to that process.

Trading Spaces:

October 28 -November 15

• Both students who wish to trade spaces must email livingoncampus@uconn.edu.
• Students who wish to trade should not submit the Mid Year Room Change Application and include the following information:
• Your Name
• Your Student ID Number
• Name of Person you are trading with
• Student Number of Person you are trading with
  • Building and Room you wish to move into

The New Student Room Change Process is an online room change for newly admitted students to view available spaces and select a new assignment prior to arriving on campus for their first semester at UConn. Availability is extremely limited and may not include every housing option on campus.

Room Changes Offered During this Process:

• Online Room Change

General Information:

• Assignments will be visible inside of MyHousing in early August for fall and early January for new spring residents. Please review the Important Dates for deadline information.
• Students who wish to change their assignment must email livingoncampus@uconn.edu, include your seven-digit student ID number (Peoplesoft number) in all correspondence
• The online room change will take place in MyHousing | Residential Life (uconn.edu). 
• Spaces in this process are determined by available vacancies. Residential Life cannot guarantee that every room type will be represented during this selection process and do not predict that any apartment spaces will be available in this process. Our available spaces become very limited at the start of the year and most options that will appear will consist of Rate 1 housing in our traditional halls.
• Once a student changes their assignment, their former room will appear in the system for another student to select. This means that if a student changes their mind, they may not be able to return to their original assignment.
• New Storrs UConn students for the fall or spring semester (incoming students and transfer students) are eligible to participate in this process for the first semester on-campus.
• Roommates cannot be pulled-in through this process -- a student can only choose a new assignment for themselves.

Summer 2024 Undergraduate Room Change Process

There will be two distinct processes for students to change rooms through the Summer 2024 Room Change & Trading Spaces Process for the Fall 2024 semester.  Moving as a Pair/Group or Moving as an Individual.

The application will open in MyHousing on May 13th and remain open until June 16, 2024.

Process Timeline:
Review Important Dates to ensure you submit your application on time and know other relevant deadlines.

Room Changes

Moving as a Pair/Group

• Room change offers will be made starting May 28th with priority given to groups/pairs who applied by May 24th.  Group/pair room change offers will be sent by our office the week of May 28^th and June 3rd.  Each student in a group or pairs that we are not able to honor their request, will receive a selection time in the online selection process to change rooms as an individual.  In order to select into the same room the students will need to wait to select when the student with the later selection time is also able to select.
• After all students in the group/pair have submitted an application, they will be contacted by a staff member via email if a space is available.
• There will be a 48 hour deadline to respond to the offer, and typically only one offer is made. Students are not obligated to accept an offer and can choose to remain in their current room.
• Any student without a room change offer after June 4th will receive a room change selection time in the event they wish to view room availability.
• Students requesting to move as a pair or group must mutually match with each other in MyHousing:

• Log-in to MyHousing
• Room Selection > Roommates/Suitemates
• Select Term: Fall 2024
• Add the student(s) that you wish to move with to your roommate list.
• Only roommate pairs/groups that read “Your roommate group is fully matched” will be considered for group room changes.
• This process is only for current undergraduate students who currently have a Fall 2024 housing assignment. Students who are new to the University will complete a separate roommate pairing process prior to placement. Students on the waiting list for housing are not eligible to pair as roommates for this process. 

Rooms Included in the Process

• Spaces in this process are determined by available vacancies. Residential Life cannot guarantee that every room type will be represented during this selection process. Once a student changes their assignment, their former room may appear in the system for another student to select.  Students trying to find spaces for larger groups may not be able to move into a fully open apartment or suite, as we currently predict that most apartment and suite spaces will fill before the room change process begins. It is unlikely that a full apartment or suite will be available for this process.

Room Rate/Meal Plan Changes
Room rate or meal plan changes can occur. Be aware that adjustments may be made to your fee bill depending on the room type you are moving in to or out of.

Moving as Individual

• Moving as Individual – Selection Times Available each week on Tuesday

• Students who request to move individually to a vacant spot will choose their assignment online in MyHousing each week, Wednesday through Friday, June 4 – June 21. Students looking to move to a specific (non-single) room, or to an Honors or LC space will be offered a room change from Residential Life.
• There will be 3 opportunities to pick a new room through the summer for students who submit the room change application. Each Wednesday through Friday starting on June 4th, eligible students can log into MyHousing and view all available spaces.
• Once a new room has been chosen, more than likely the student’s former fall assignment will be available to another student to select. Students can change assignments any number of times between June 4th – June 21st.
• Roommates cannot be pulled-in through this process – a student can only choose a new assignment for themselves.
• Students who do not select a new room during this process will return to the same room for the fall semester.
• Instructions for selection will be each week via email on Tuesday.
• Any room changes occurring after the fall fee bills are generated will be reflected on the fee bill in late July.
• New rooms are added to the selection options weekly.

Specific Room Requests
Know of a room that will have an opening? Make sure you include that on your room change application and Residential Life will see if the room will be available to move you into.

Don’t Want to Move? Don’t Submit an Application!
If you don’t want to move, don’t submit an application! Only students who submit a room change/trading spaces application will be considered to change rooms.

If you change your mind about changing rooms while the process is underway, do not select a new space! Whatever assignment you are in when the process closes on June 21st will be the one that you will move into when you arrive to campus in August. If you do not change assignments, the room that you selected during housing selection in will be your Fall 2024 assignment.

Special Interest Areas

There are special interest housing areas throughout campus. Students requesting these areas must meet programmatic requirements. Students cannot move into or out of Husky Village during this room change process.

Moving to a Single Room
Room change requests received to traditional residence hall single rooms will not be processed. Traditional residence hall single rooms are prioritized for students with approved CSD housing accommodations for single rooms.  Students requesting a room change to a single will be issued a housing selection time and will be able to choose from whatever rooms are available. Students cannot request to trade spaces into a single from other room types.

Trading Spaces (Swap Rooms with Another Student)

Email livingoncampus@uconn.edu May 20 – June 16, 2024.

Both students who wish to trade spaces must email livingoncampus@uconn.edu with the following information:

1. Name
2. Student Number
3. Name of Person you are trading with
4. Student Number of Person you are trading with
5. Room you wish to move into

Students can update their application answer for the room change application by logging into MyHousing and clicking on the room change application again. Under the dropdown menu, select "Revisit/update this application" and you can resubmit it.

Talk with our Team!

Going through Room Change after leaving campus means that it can be more complicated to stop by our office to ask a quick question or to get help than in previous years.

We have a few solutions to try to help you connect with our Housing Services team and get your questions answered! Please remember that you can also email livingoncampus@uconn.edu or call (860) 486-2926.

Staff work during the hours of 8:00am - 4:00pm (ET) on Monday - Friday during the summer.

Process Timeline

The schedule below shows each week's timeline for the 3 rounds of the Summer Room Change process.

Students who submit an application but do not select a new room will automatically be issued a time for all remaining rounds of the room change process. This means that if you apply before June 2^nd but do not pick a room during the online process taking place June 5-7, we will automatically give you a pick time for the June 12-14 online process so that you can look at availability during that process.

Students who request a group move, specific room request, or special interest area will be processed manually by staff each week.

Please keep in mind that group moves and specific room requests will be processed during the week of May 28^th and June 3^rd and must be submitted by the May 24th application priority deadline. After May 24th, students with a specific room or group move request select in the online process.